Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airplane Man/' The Lindberghs continued their northering flight to the Orient, making the supposedly hazardous stretch from Baker Lake 1,115 mi-to Aklavik, extreme northwest Canada, with a precision that silenced alarmists. Bad weather bound the flyers for three days and two nights at Aklavik, where they were lionized by the 35 white residents and the hundred or so Eskimos (to whom Col. Lindbergh was "Big Airplane Man"). When the fog cleared along the Arctic coast the Lindberghs flew on to icebound Point Barrow, Alaska, to the indescribable delight of the residents who had received neither visitors...
...higher than in 1930. For the half-year GM earned $84,122,000 against $98,355,000, or per-share earnings of $1.83 against a $1.50 dividend requirement. Although the second half is the harder one for motor companies, GM enters the final stretch with working capital of $328,000,000 against $290,000,000 a year ago. If working capital is the backbone of a company, cash is its sinew. GM has $245,000,000 deposited in banks and invested in Government bonds...
...produced a "flight of capital," which strained, almost sprained the credit resources of the Reichsbank. President Hans Luther had received a new credit of $100,000.000 from New York and other banks to defend his position. Ordinarily a hard pressed government which receives such a credit is able to stretch it over the requirements of months?as Italy did when she got $100,000.000 some years ago. Last week Dr. Luther found that he had run through the $100.000.000 literally in a few week?! Hoover and Laval must not fail...
...there have been no cases of drinking among the women and few among the men. The Russians all remark upon the small amount of drinking indulged in by Americans, and certainly Mr. Warren's remark . . . is without foundation. There is not a woman here who could, under any stretch of the imagination, fit into that class. . . . The women here are busy making comfortable homes for their husbands and themselves, and lead normal lives...
...drawn), and Old Etonians like to remember that Old Etonian Wellington said: "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton!" Harrovians counter by pointing out that Eton has some 1,100 students from which to choose its cricketers; Harrow only 700. Seven weeks of holiday stretch from the end of the Summer Term to the beginning of the Autumn Term. To Eton (King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor) will then come a new batch of 13 and 14-year-oldsters. As pupils in Britain's largest, most expensive (average total...